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AF clothing requirements

Discussion in 'Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)' started by ctsmiths, Jan 15, 2009.

  1. ctsmiths New Member

    In the plant that I work, we manufacture medical devices. This is a clean room environment, including hair and beard covers ( nets) and a poly clean room gown. The machines in the area are all feed from a few 480v 3 phase buss's. The machines use various amperages from 30A to 200A. The company has supplied the electricians with AF level 2 ppe per the arc flash analysis we had done. The problem is that the gowns and beard covers as well as the earplugs and saftey glasses are not AF rated, I was told that we have purchased AF gowns ( long coats ) but the QA dept has not approved them for use in the clean room, and they havent purchased the hair/beard covers or the earplugs. So my question is can they make me work in CAT 2 AF if I dont have the correct AF ppe?
    ( The AF clothing we have now is a long sleve button shirt and pants)
    Thanks
    ctsmiths, Jan 15, 2009
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  2. Zog Well-Known Member

    Zog, Jan 16, 2009
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  3. ctsmiths New Member

    I belive that the stuff we have is approved clean room but our QA dept has the final say, and as of yet they havent approved it and like I had said the ear plugs and hair covers arent AF and I havent heard that they were getting any, and they still want us to work in CAT 2 area with the stuff we have. I see this as a conflict, follow the regs, but if they say work with out the ppe thats ok?
    ctsmiths, Jan 16, 2009
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  4. stevenal Well-Known Member

    stevenal, Jan 23, 2009
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  5. sthompson New Member

    FR Cleanroom Garments

    There are a couple different vendors that have FR Cleanroom garments that we found acceptable.

    We chose one made by Oberon called ArcClean.
    http://www.westernsafety.com/oberon-2007/oberonpg2.html
    scroll all the way to the bottom of the page.
    G&K Services also has an FR Cleanroom garment called ChemStat 919

    The cleanroom garments have attached hoods to cover the hair.

    Salisbury also makes FR hair/beard covers just look on their webpage or catalog.
    http://www.whsalisbury.com/
    sthompson, Apr 22, 2009
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